Girl Gone Missing
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Nothing in Renee Blackbear's world had prepared her for college or for the hurt that happens in the Twin Cities.
MarcieR. Rendon Books
Marcie R. Rendon, an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation, is a mother, grandmother, writer, and performance artist. She honed her literary craft under the tutelage of author Jim Northrup. Her work is deeply rooted in Indigenous culture and personal experience. Rendon writes for both children and adults, with her narratives often exploring themes of identity and community.
Murder on the Red River
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
A murdered man in a field. The sheriff needs Cash--a twenty-something tough, smart Indian woman with special seeing powers.
"A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a hymnal written in English and Ojibwe. Cash Blackbear, a 19-year-old Ojibwe woman, sometimes helps Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, on his investigations. Now she knows her search for justice for this anonymous victim will take her to the White Earth Reservation, a place she once called home. When Cash happens upon two small graves in the yard of a rural, "speak-in-tongues kinda church," Cash is pulled into the lives of the malevolent pastor and his troubled wife while yet another Native woman dies in a mysterious manner"-- Provided by publisher
